This brings me to the topic of todays proceedings. I would like to recap my recollection of the timeline in which these events played out. I testified about all of this at length in my deposition. In july, i became aware of a hold being placed on obligation of the State Departments military financing or fmf and dods usai fund. In meetings i heard the president directed the Office Of Management And Budget to hold the funds because of his concern for corruption in ukraine. Let me say at the outset i have never discussed this or any other matter with the president and never heard directly from him about this matter. At a senior level meeting i attended july 26th chaired by National Council Security Leadership as in all other interagency meetings on this topic of which i was wear, the
national Security Community expressed unanimous support for resuming funding in the u. S. National security interests. At the July 26th Meeting there was also a discussion how ukrainian anticorruption efforts
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aware that the aid was being withheld? sir, just to be clear, the september 5th conversation that i had was specific to the hold. there was an awareness of that, and there was a question of concern. okay. thank you. you know, miss cooper, to both of you, undersecretary hill, as well. at the end of the day, it really does, and i ve done this before, and it does come down to this. the transcript i m holding up is the transcript of the phone call between president zelensky and president trump that i would hope every american would take the opportunity to read and it s only a few pages long, and much more information beyond that is maybe helpful to inform, but it really comes down to those conversations and those few sentences. mr. hill, going quickly through a series of questions and i have your answers here so this won t take long, and you ve answered them generally, you should evaluate whether the country is worthy of our aid, is that fair
united states. this afternoon, the american people will hear from two witnesses who are both metro national security professionals. one at the department of state and the other at the defense department. david hale is the under secretary of state for political affairs. the third most senior official in the department and the most senior foreign official officer. laura cooper served as deputy secretary assistance of defense for ukraine, and russia, and is responsible for a broad range of countries in the former soviet union and the balkans. between the two of them they have decades of experience expee serving both democratic and republican presidents. george can t come investor bill taylor, lieutenant colonel alexander of inman, and jennifer williams, their only priority has been the security of the united states. undersecretary hill was witness to the smear campaign against the smear campaign to the ambassador to the ukraine, maria